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Nemere2020: 11:01am On May 09, 2020
Police say a nurse at a New York City hospital faces charges for stealing a credit card of a former Covid-19 patient while hospitalized, which the patient's daughter says was used for gasoline and groceries.

Danielle Conti, 43, has been charged with grand larceny, petty larceny and criminal possession of stolen property after ringing up charges on two of Anthony Catapano's credit cards while hospitalized at Staten Island University Hospital with coronavirus, according to the New York Police Department.

Catapano, 70, was hospitalized on April 4 after getting sick from coronavirus, his daughter, Tara Catapano, told CNN. He was lucid when the alleged theft occurred and later died on April 12 from complications of the virus.

"I was in shock and disbelief," Tara Catapano said. "Obviously, I knew it had to be a hospital employee because visitors weren't really allowed."

Tara Catapano, who had been paying her father's bills since her mother ed away in 2014, said she normally doesn't track her father's spending closely.

However, after he died and she received a credit card statement for gasoline -- which she said her father always paid for in cash -- she then saw the charge date occurred on April 9, when her father was "in the hospital, literally fighting for his life."

Tara Catapano said the police showed her surveillance footage from a ShopRite of what appeared to be Conti paying for groceries using her father's card.

"They take an oath to protect, not to harm," Tara Catapano said.
Other belongings uned for include her father's eyeglasses, cell phone, cash in the wallet, phone chargers and pictures. It's not clear what happened to those belongings and it isn't certain they were intentionally stolen.

In a statement provided to CNN, Christian Preston, the director of public affairs for Staten Island University Hospital, said Conti, who has worked at the hospital since 2007, "has been temporarily suspended and faces termination in response to the felony charges." He also said the hospital is "working closely with the law enforcement authorities and the hospital is conducting its own investigation."

Tara Catapano told CNN she just wants to know why Conti did what she allegedly did.

"I would want to know why she took advantage of my father while he was on his deathbed," she said. "And I would want to know how she would feel if someone did that to a loved one of hers -- whether it was a parent or grandparent. I don't think when people do these things they think of it like that.

"But he is my father, he is a person," Tara Catapano said. "I am disgusted [Conti was] supposed to be taking care of him and instead ... stole from him."

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/05/08/us/ny-nurse-steals-from-covid-patient/index.html


Conti(left), the victim (right)

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Ezennwa(m): 11:02am On May 09, 2020
hmm!

Wonders shall never end.
strange things are happening.

She must be a hungry nurse.

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Olalan(m): 11:09am On May 09, 2020
The heart of man is terribly wicked

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kinglee007(m): 11:11am On May 09, 2020
The topic of the post still summarizes the epistle, "a nurse stole from a dying COVID-19 patient".
It kinda reminds me of a certain group of leaders of a "country" taking advantage of the COVID-19 crisis currently taking place in their country and CASHING OUT BIG.

I guess the nurse must have a bloodlink to those leaders from that country.

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Humanoid01(m): 11:14am On May 09, 2020
Ezennwa:
hmm!

Wonders shall never end in this our country.
strange things are happening.
You don't even need to read the write up to know that it didn't happen in Nigeria. The picture or the first line alone is just enough.

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Memberclub(m): 11:17am On May 09, 2020
she has a tattoo on her tits.
wicked Italian slut

I'd still smash her even though she is 43 angry

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Ezennwa(m): 11:42am On May 09, 2020
Chrisemeka1:


forgive ooh... But how can you be mad and stupid at the same time? Can't you read atleast a paragraph?
hmm!

Insult is allowed.

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Ezennwa(m): 11:43am On May 09, 2020
Humanoid01:

You don't even need to read the write up to know that it didn't happen in Nigeria. The picture or the first line alone is just enough.
Nigeria is capable of anything.

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clevvermind(m): 12:16pm On May 09, 2020
Many will run their mouth if it is in Nigeria. But now, they will not talk.

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Specialraph(m): 1:14pm On May 09, 2020
Heal the world.
castrol180(m): 5:06pm On May 09, 2020
So this happens everywhere even in a developed country where it is easier fishing out crimes...God heal the world like the guy up there said

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ignis: 5:06pm On May 09, 2020
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oluwasegun007(m): 5:06pm On May 09, 2020
End Time tinz....
IAmSkinny: 5:06pm On May 09, 2020
Why is this sh!t!ness? Why are people so full of sh!t? Stealing from a dying aged man? WTF!
At least they should have been decent enough to wait until he es on.
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larry90500(m): 5:06pm On May 09, 2020
Ole ni everybody mehn grin

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Jestin: 5:07pm On May 09, 2020
Covid-19 should just go away already.

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MyVILLAGEpeople(m): 5:07pm On May 09, 2020
sad angry
ednut1(m): 5:07pm On May 09, 2020
Must be dating a yahoo boy

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Mrchippychappy(m): 5:07pm On May 09, 2020
These Oyinbo nurses are thieves but they know how to cover for each other and deflect the blame to the black american nurses, thank God this one was caught with her hands in the cookie jar!

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SWORD419(m): 5:08pm On May 09, 2020
Merciless nurse, check well she definitely have linkage with ipobs
ignis: 5:08pm On May 09, 2020
Where are all those noise makers on Nairaland ?

They will be silent because an American White Woman is involved. Assuming the nurse is a Nigerian now, they will be barking like a mad dog.

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praiseneo(m): 5:08pm On May 09, 2020
One million girls gang grin

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Andesite: 5:08pm On May 09, 2020
Crime is not a respecter of skin color.

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mjabdulk: 5:08pm On May 09, 2020
Let her be arrested and prosecuted for such criminal unpitiable act.
Sacchi1162(m): 5:08pm On May 09, 2020
Whites

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